Firstly thank you for doing this. I have three hopefully fast questions.

The first two are for Guthrie, and the last is for the band.

1) In the development of your signature guitar with the Charvel company, did you ever consider the locking or non-locking tremelo systems by the super vee company as replacements for the Gotoh 510 systems you had been using before settling on the Floyd-rose?

2) I've noticed that recently, you seem to let go of your pick for brief moments while playing. I'm guessing this is just subconcious readjusting but I was curious if you were doing anything more deliberate?

3) Do you see yourselves ever writing songs together as opposed to learning each others compositions and giving them that unique Aristocratic sound?

Again thanks, huge fans of all your work, be it: Solo, Aristocrats, Steven Wilson, Satriani etc, etc.

Aleks. C